Five Great Greek Tragedies
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This remarkably low-priced anthology brings together five of the greatest, most studied, and most performed Greek tragedies, each in an outstanding translation:
• Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), in which the much-admired playwright explores the individual's search for truth and self-knowledge
• Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), favorites with modern audiences for their psychological subtlety and the humanity of their characters
• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson), a monumental work that examines relations between humans and the gods
These masterpieces of world literature represent the very apex of Greek drama and are essential for both the home library and the classroom.
Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than or contemporary with those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had read Prometheus Bound and Oedipus Rex before, but Electra, Medea, and Bacchae, were all new to me. I can't honestly say they (Electra, Medea, and Bacchae) were all that great or nearly as good as Bound or Rex. Electra (the play) I find is more about Orestes (which isn't surprising since Sophocles did a trilogy on Orestes) and so she is diminished as a character and in importance in the play and is more a mere moaner and basically a "damsel in distress". Medea is..... just..... ehh...... so hard to find any one sympathetic (other than the children obviously), and just so lackluster in idea and plot that I don't find myself truly caring. Bacchae I just couldn't get into. Its more a rhetorical and hypothetical and abstract play that mostly flies over my head I'm afraid. Even with knowing what it is talking about I find it going over my head because it seems too abstract and just not important or interesting enough. Worth the read though to know and understand the ancient Greeks, just wish I could have gotten into the plays a bit more like I could the Orestes trilogy or the various Oedipus plays or Prometheus Bound or the numerous other plays I've read of Greece.